Interim Finance Management & Financial Directors

The financial and professional services landscape is ever changing. Businesses know they must change with it.

Whilst delivering transformation is a challenge in any sector, in the heavily regulated worlds of financial and professional services, this challenge is magnified. Calls for cultural as well as operational change are adding another layer of complexity on top.

In these uncertain times, we support market leaders and challengers – helping them to disrupt, transform and execute their own organisational strategy.

More and more businesses recognise the value of interim managers bring in enabling business success. Our interims help our clients to stay relevant and appealing to customers. They are enabling new growth. And, they are connecting clients to the challenger ecosystem across FinTech, InsureTech and RegTech.

Whatever your goals, we can ensure transformation delivers at pace that you need.

Helping you deliver better outcomes

Proven expertise

From outside competitive pressures to the need for internal cultural change, there are a huge diversity of issues to face in financial and professional services.

When change and transformation is required, the right talent can’t always be found inside an organisation – and often an external perspective is key to delivering results. That’s where our services come in.

Our experience

Our team delivers superior outcomes for complex engagements whilst bringing significant value to our clients through the provision of interim executives, interim teams and leadership advisory services. We deliver for a wide range of mandates ranging from executive and functional leadership assignments, business transformation, programme management and change to restructuring portfolios and thematic reviews.

How we help

We understand the pressures faced in the changing regulatory landscape, from remediation programmes and the change associated with a regulatory review, to the transformation of the customer experience and back office processing through digitalisation.

Our goal is to deliver forward-thinking people solution strategies to support our clients through turbulent and challenging periods. Clients come to us because we bring insight, understanding of both our market and other sectors with the dynamics of what is happening and its impact on organisations.

Through our differentiated network of high-performing senior interims, community and partner ecosystem, we’re able to reduce organisational risk and mobilise talent for sensitive business-critical agendas.

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Typical interim assignments

Key benefits of interim managers

Cost-effective onboarding of expertise to support business transformation, programme management and change
Hiring of expertise or on a project basis to help businesses respond to regulatory change
Expertise to support development and launch of new business operating models and redesign
Skilled expertise and leadership to support in successful delivery of a merger or acquisition – pre and post-integration
Leadership and programme management for big data, cyber security, digital and technology-enabled transformation

Example roles

The Interim Partners difference

We work closely with our clients to help solve their most complex business challenges. Our award-winning consulting services leverage an extensive network of trusted interim managers and executives with the expertise to deliver measurable results across multiple business functions and sectors at a fraction of the cost of management consultants.

We offer a unique approach to interim recruitment and will take the time to truly understand your business. We look at what your challenges are and what you are aiming to achieve. Together, we define your assignment goals and deliverables – giving absolute clarity on the potential value add or return on investment from your interim.

Our interims are contracted through our 4-stage Return on Interim (ROI) methodology to ensure they deliver the results our clients expect, every time.

Executive search & selection

Our extensive candidate network means we're well placed to find high-calibre candidates when you're looking to recruit a permanent c-suite or senior leadership professional. Wickland Westcott, our executive search business, delivers retained executive-level assignments both internationally and domestically, centring on the recruitment of CEOs, MDs and general managers along with other senior leadership professionals.

Across assignments, we provide up-to-date marketplace insight, making clear recommendations on when to recruit within niche sectors and when to bring in fresh skills and perspective from outside.

Our high-quality, holistic service combines the capability of our highly experienced executive recruitment consultants with in-depth psychometric/personality assessments delivered by qualified occupational psychologists. Our search and selection methodology will ensure a cultural fit and alignment to values and organisational purpose, which is particularly important at a senior level.

Why Wickland Westcott?